A Bit of Cynicism (And a Song!)

After being in and out of the hospital my Aunt Robyn is finally back home for what will hopefully be a while.  I say that because my hope is that she will get better without the need to go back to the hospital, but who knows. 

Right now she is in hospice care.  The ladies that take care of her are at the house 24/7 and their main goal is to make her comfortable.  The doctors are telling us there is nothing they can do for her.  So in light of that bit of information (I for one think they're full of crap), hospice is the next best thing.

It's hard to tell if she is getting better or not.  She is always in a sort of half-asleep state and doesn't quite know what's going on; most likely due to the pain she is in and the pain meds she takes for it. 

My uncle has her taking some natural supplements which at this point is better than nothing.  It's hard to tell if they are working at all since she hasn't been on them long.  I guess we'll see as time goes on.  When my mom had cancer she also used natural means to help regain her strength from the chemotherapy and radiation treatments.  Even still, I'm been a skeptic when it comes to lotions, potions, and thigh creams that are supposed to "do it all."  The stuff my aunt is taking is from Alaska (these kinda things always seem to come from some backwoods hermit) and have a very recovering rate for people fighting cancer.  It all sounds good but you'll have to forgive me for being hesitant about jumping on board.  It's not like the supplements will have any negative effects, but they're called elixirs for a reason.  At the end of the day though, my uncle is sold on them and he believes that if God is going to heal her, this is how He's gonna do it.

I've pretty much settled in up here in Ohio.  Things that bothered me at first don't have much sway anymore.  I'm looking forward to coming home and have been missing my friends, my church, and just L.A. in general, but I'm comfortable at the moment and writing more than I have in a while which is cool.  Anyway, I'll wrap things up with a song I've been listening to a lot lately.  It's taken a year of owning this album and not really listening to it then rediscovering it by accident to finally make a connection.  I love when that happens.  It's about as hipster as I get.